Well, what language do you speak?
Very usefull if you are traveling is to have the knowledge of multiple languages.
I speak:
-Dutch
-English
-Arabic
-French
-German
-Spanish(I'm still learning, I'm just a beginner)

Spanish, Catalan, English, French, Italian, German, Portuguese and I have got a smattering of modern Greek and Euskera.
;)

Native language: German

Fluent: English

Advanced: Spanish

Intermediate: French, Latin

Beginner: Mandarin, Japanese, Italian

Languages that I can speak, write and read fluently..
English
Tongan
Samoan
Portugues
Spanish

Languages that Im learning..
French
Japanese

]Spanish, Catalan, English, French, Italian, German, Portuguese and I have got a smattering of modern Greek and Euskera.
E non falas o Galego?

Damn, I wish I could speak so many languages. But I'm too lazy to learn. :D
I can only speak German, English and some Italian. Reading Dutch texts is also not such a big problem for me.

German
English
French
Spanish (beginner)

-German
-English
-French
-Italian
-Latin (But I forgot the most)
-Since about a year I'm learning japanese

I'm able to understand some spanish and dutch

-Dutch
-English
-German
-French (reading)
-Spanish (beginner)

French
English
Italian

Estonian,English,German and some Finnish and Russian

German
Swiss German :)
English
Little French

I have to say that it is very hard for me to learn Languages, well atleast I am good at maths.

Fluent: English, Malay, Hokkien (dialect)

Intermediate: Cantonese, Mandarin

Beginner: Korean

Spanish, Catalan, English, French, Italian, German, Portuguese and I have got a smattering of modern Greek and Euskera.
;)
I forgot Latin, but I studied it 15 years ago...
:runaway:

FREE:
Hebrew,russian,
I can speak very good
turkish,azeri

bit english and arabic...

Native-Turkish
Very Good-English
Poor-German
Beginner-Russian, French

Finnish, Swedish and English.

Dutch, English, then German -but the grammar is still a nightmare- and a bit of French.

-Hebrew
-English
-Spanish
and i started to learn russian :)

Speak, write and read:

Danish
English

Can communicate in and read:

Swedish
Norwegian

Can buy a beer, read and tell where I'm from in:

German

Can buy a beer and not much else in:

Spanish
French

Can greet and ask for weapons in:

Arabic


But when drunk I speak everything fluently... :cheers:

( btw is "le beer" a word? ;) )

Fluent in English
Japanese at a conversational level
Ilocano, I can only understand it, can't speak it.
Swedish and Spanish at an almost conversational level
Some bits of Norwegian, Korean, Tagalog, and Mandarin.

Serbian/Croatian (native)
English
Spanish (not much though)

1.Persian
2.English
3.German
4.French
5.Luxembourgish
6.Danish

able to communicate in :

Spanish , Portuguese and a bit Serbian

And now i'm learning Hebrew

Italian, English, Spanish, Franch (learning), German, (learning), Chinese (i've started today :D) and i'm gonna learn Arabic, Portugese and Russian in my future.
I'm 19.

But when drunk I speak everything fluently... :cheers:



:lol: Its funny how that happends. :drunk:

( btw is "le beer" a word? )
le biere :cheers:

la biere!

Polish, English, Russian and German and French (a little bit)

la biere!


=butter and arab(slang),no?

1. Dutch (mothertongue)
2. English (Good, but one can always improve)
3. German (I love this language)
4. French (able to communicate quite well)

I'm also able to speak a very tiny minimal little bit of Latin, which won't get me anywhere... I'd like to learn Spanish, Italian, a scandinavian language, Gothic (You know, the language the Goths spoke...) and pherhaps Esperanto. In the future it might be useful to learn arabic too, but that won't happen too soon. It's interesting to see how many languages some people can speak.

fluently: Turkish,German,English
can understand but can't speak fluenty: french,spanish! I'm going to stay in Buenos Aires for some time in order to improve my spanish.I guess when I come back I'll be able to speak it fluently as well.
aim: I'm going to study chinese, politics and economy of far east.(not sure)
The more I learn the more it makes me feel good :) I love learning languages and traveling!!

=butter and arab(slang),no?


nop, that's "beur", biere just means beer

^^thanx

bira in hebrew:D

Spanish, Catalan, English, French, Italian, German, Portuguese and I have got a smattering of modern Greek and Euskera.
;)
Wow thats impresive bitxofo :applause:

about me
portuguese native
english preety good
french speak a little
spanish +-
italian very little..

I speak TAMIL a classical language proudly spoken by 80 milliom people

engrish

Ukrainian
English
Russian
Polish

Learning:

Spanish

mother tongue: Portuguese

then fluent in (in descending degree of fluence):

English
French
Italian
Spanish

and then deep down there

German
Dutch

Brazilian Portuguese.

fluent english, intermediate french, beginner spanish, and beginner dutch.

Fluent:
Russian
English

To Some Extent:
German
Spanish

Spanish, English and French

English, Japanese;
Some Russian, Navajo and Spanish.
Thinking of studying Korean or Mandarin...

English and I used to speak Latin American Spanish, but it's fading fast.

If you speak three languages your trilingual, two languages and your bilingual, and if you speak one language you're an American.

English (American and UK)

Spanish- Read, Write, Speak
But it is fading

German- Simple listening and reading

English
French
Dutch, and
German, all fluently,
and a little bit of Spanish

btw, I'm surprised how many people here, that aren't from Holland speak (a little) Dutch!!

I've read all posts, and nobody can speak dutch fluently. But there are some germans that can read it.
There was also one flemmish guy who speaks dutch, but he isn't from the netherlands;)

Portuguese (my linguage)
English
Frensh
Spanish
a few words of Hebrew (not enough to matains a conversation)

fluent english, intermediate french, beginner spanish, and beginner dutch.
this guy speaks a little dutch and he's from Canada (NewFoundland) ;)

Swissgerman - Mother Tongue
German - since age of 5 fluently
French - since age of 12 (10 years in school, but forgot most of it in the meantime, although I still understand)
English - since age of 14, fluently
Portuguese - never learned properly but I understand and speak a little (maybe more than French :lol: ) for I was living in Sao Paulo for one year and married to a Brazilian.
Latin - many years in school, don't speak but it helps to understand a bit of the writings in Italian, Rumantsch and Spanish, that I never learned and was a big help for Portuguese.

I also tried to learn once Russian, Finnish and Bahasa Indonesia - but forget it! At least I still remember some words in Finnish, but the declination is just too difficult :cheers:

Here we go again. Kuesel and his Icelandic skills.

Pff. Catalan, Spanish, English, Japanese, Korean, and a bit of French and Latin.

Forget it! I learned a lot - but apart from German and English and a bit of portuguese I don't have ANY big experiences (and if only bad ones :lol: ) in other languages ;)

It's not Icelandic - it's Rumantsch: these people HAVE to learn also Swissgerman, German, and Italian or French - and if they study also English. Apart from that Rumantsch has a lot of different dialects, they all are perfect in ANY language :eek:

I've read all posts, and nobody can speak dutch fluently. But there are some germans that can read it.
There was also one flemmish guy who speaks dutch, but he isn't from the netherlands;)
Je hebt mijn bericht zeker niet gelezen op pagina 1? ;)

=

Didn't you read my post on page 1? ;)

la biere!
La bière.
;)

This I understood as well :) My neighbour is Dutch... ;)

Swissgerman is not even that bad - with a bit of fanatsy you can read and understand Swedish and Norwegian a bit as well: read it loud letter by letter and it would sound like Swissgerman - but clear totally different pronounced or the other way: spelled :lol:

DvW, youre from the netherlands, you dont count;)

English and I used to speak Latin American Spanish, but it's fading fast.

If you speak three languages your trilingual, two languages and your bilingual, and if you speak one language you're an American.
^^Very good!^^
:rofl::rofl:
:hilarious :hilarious
:hahaha:

very TRUE!!! :lol: :rofl: :rofl: :lol:

DvW, youre from the netherlands, you dont count;)
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^^Very good!^^
:rofl::rofl:
:hilarious :hilarious
:hahaha:
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very TRUE!!! :lol: :rofl: :rofl: :lol:
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:D ;)

Dutch, English, German, French, and a little bit of Spanish and Malaysian.

1- English
2- Norwegian
3- English-accented Swedish (Not very fluent)
4- Heavily English/Norwegian-accented Danish (Basically I assume it looks like Norwegian and never learned it well, not fluent of course--- though I could understand most written Danish words)
5- A little bit Finnish. (Trying to learn it, but the grammar is very difficult)

You learn all the scandinavian languages, wow! :eek:

Bulgarian(native)
English
Russian
ohh and Macedonian:wink2:

You learn all the scandinavian languages, wow! :eek:

Not really. I just know very basic Finnish that I can't speak well. Barely enough to read some passages like I did in French.

And Danish... I can't read them properly... just use Norwegian pronunciation to speak those words--- can't imitate those glottal sounds.

lolllllllllllllllll Nick :hilarious:

Languages that I speak, read, and write in:

English
Tagalog
Cebuano
Surigaonon

Languages that I can comprehend when i hear it and read, but cannot really speak:

Persian
French
Hiligaynon

Languages that i flunked in class:

Ancient Greek
Japanese

slovak (native)
czech (native, bi-lingual with slovak)
russian
english
german
persian (farsi - standart, but more Tehrooni :-))
arabic (standart - very poor, Syrian (damascus) dialect better
latin (I forgot a lot)
bahasa indonesia (a little)

I discovered recently that I also understand Afrikaans, I think i´ll learn to speak it before summer.

5- A little bit Finnish. (Trying to learn it, but the grammar is very difficult)

Hah, that's interesting! I've been doing to the same! (I've got a few Finnish friends, and I love the way it sounds). We should converse in our limited Suomi some time! ;)

Brazilian Portuguese (native)
English
Spanish
Italian (so so)

Hah, that's interesting! I've been doing to the same! (I've got a few Finnish friends, and I love the way it sounds). We should converse in our limited Suomi some time! ;)

Exactly, Finnish sounds very nice, but to understand how they speak is another story. Very different from English.

Fluently Write, Read & Speak
English
Urdu

Can say a few words
Punjabi

Can swear in
Bengali

Speak:
Cantonese (Mother-tounge), Mandarin, English. I could understand the dialacts of Chouzhou but not fluently on speaking. Also, I could understand some basic Thai and Japanese.

Read:
Chinese (Both Traditional and Simplified) and English. I could read some Japanese Pharses in Kanji. :|

2- Norwegian
3- English-accented Swedish (Not very fluent)
4- Heavily English/Norwegian-accented Danish (Basically I assume it looks like Norwegian and never learned it well, not fluent of course--- though I could understand most written Danish words)
5- A little bit Finnish. (Trying to learn it, but the grammar is very difficult)

I've been told by Danes, Norwegians and Swedes I've met here in Atlanta, that if you if you speak any of these Scandinavian languages that you can understand them all.

Also, Finland may be located in Scandinavia, but the language is definitely not Scandinavian/Germanic. It's close to the Baltic languages and Hungarian (or Magyar Paya??)

I discovered recently that I also understand Afrikaans, I think i´ll learn to speak it before summer.

My paternal grandparents and my late father spoke fluent Afrikaans and English, although they spoke English at home. They were all born and raised in Apartheid South Africa where whites had to learn to speak both languages. However, I remember asking all of them if they understood Dutch, because Afrikaans is basically derived from Dutch, but they all said no. I don't know if they could understand written Dutch or not, but spoken Dutch was not very understandable. I think it's due to the German and French influence on the development of Afrikaans.

mother languages are dutch and bahasa indonesia
fluent in english and mandarin
understand german a wee bit ^__^
currently i am trying to learn french

slovak (native)
czech (native, bi-lingual with slovak)
russian
english
german
persian (farsi - standart, but more Tehrooni :-))
arabic (standart - very poor, Syrian (damascus) dialect better
latin (I forgot a lot)
bahasa indonesia (a little)

it's interesting that you know a little bit of bahasa indonesia. where do you learn it?

Fluent in english. A little spanish.

Russian-native
English-fluent
Spanish-intermediate, and learning
German-beginner

Hindi - Speak
Punjabi - Speak and Read
English - Speak, read and write

Bosnian and English

ENglish
Indonesian

German - although it's faded. :(

Greek, English

A little bit Italian.

1. English - Native
2. Japanese

Indonesian
Malay
English
Mandarin (Pasive)

English - Fluent

French - Read Good, Speak OK

Swahili - Learning

Native: English
Intermediate: Cantonese
Beginner: Italian, Indonesian

English (native)
Japanese (semi-fluent)
French (can read well, but not converse)
Korean (it's dormant in my brain, but comes out when I'm talking to someone)

Spanish,English,French and German.

Norwegian, English, Danish, Swedish, German

Everybody speaks English here. NYC was from the Dutch at first (they build the city in 1625,as you can see on NYC stamps), it was called New Amsterdam. Than the Eglish came, they conquered the Dutch in 1664. In 1673 the Dutch defeated the English, New York's name changed to New Orange. But in 1674 the English did strike back and the city became NYC again. If the city would've been stayed Dutch ownership, Dutch would be the most important language in the world:D..

Did anyone know this brief history?:)^^

Polish (speak fluently & write)
English (speak fluently & write)
German (speak fluently & write)
Spanish (speak & write okay and still learning)

Everybody speaks English here. NYC was from the Dutch at first (they build the city in 1625,as you can see on NYC stamps), it was called New Amsterdam. Than the Eglish came, they conquered the Dutch in 1664. In 1673 the Dutch defeated the English, New York's name changed to New Orange. But in 1674 the English did strike back and the city became NYC again. If the city would've been stayed Dutch ownership, Dutch would be the most important language in the world:D..

Did anyone know this brief history?:)^^

not forcibly... had it remained Dutch, History would be different. The 13 initial colonies might have never existed and fighted for independence. The US wouldn't exist then, in this alternative reality . So it's difficult to say whether Dutch could have ebcome the most important language in the World. In fact, I don't thikn it was ever an issue to the Dutch, since none of Hollands former colonies has a big number of Dutch Speakers.

@ Petronius

In parts of Indonesia (especially Maluku), Suriname, South Africa, the Dutch Antilles and Belgium ( not a former colony:tongue3: ) they still speak Dutch. Although they've a strong accent, it's oftently understandable.

English
Russian
Spanish (3 words)
Japanese (4 words)

I speak:

Spanish, English, Portuguese, Japanese (begginer) and Australian ;)

Mothertongue: Serbian
Fluent: English
Intermediate: Russian
Beginner: German (I must have hired a weird professor as I can understand Lëtzebuergesch better :weird:), Spanish but I think that learning French would be the smartest and nicest thing to do (among European languages)

And of course Croatian, Bosnia(nk) and can understand a lot of Bulgarian and Slovenian though I can`t speak the last two.

German (doh!), English, French, a little Italian (I understand pretty much everything written)

^^
It's quite easy to understand and speak Croatian, Bosnian Bulgarian and Slovanian if you speak serbian right?

I can read, speak fluently, and write:

English and Swedish

I can understand:

Norwegian
And maby danish but I am not sure, it might depend on from where in denmark the person is.

And I am studying spanish but I don't know very much spanish.

I can speak read and write- Polish
I can speak, read and I'm learning writing Dutch (My mother is Dutch, my father Polish, and I'm actualy living in Poland)
I'm learning English (not bad) and German (I have a B but i can't talk and write :D)

I speak , read and write in 3 languages :)
They are in order of precedence from best to worst :
Russian (my mother tongue) , hebrew my second since I live in Israel and english which is pretty good since I work in a company whose customers are mostly americans and I speak about two hours a day with people from around the globe.
Last year I travelled to USA on my vacation and I felt quite comfortable speaking in English.

Ilocano (Filipino),
Pangasinan (Filipino),
Tagalog (Filipino), &
American English

so what is the universal language then?

^^i didn't know u are russian:D
70% of israeli forum are russian jews:D

I can read, write and/or speak English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Greek...

My goal is to learn Turkish and Arabic :)

it's interesting that you know a little bit of bahasa indonesia. where do you learn it?


Sorry I am answering so late: I have some friends, they were in Indonesia (Banda Aceh) for language course (1 year) becouse they studied it on our University, they told me about that language, for me it was interesting becouse of pletny arab worlds in that time, so I bough a book (Czech one), it is not very difficult, but I need practice.

Equally fluent in both Filipino (Tagalog) and English.
Can read and write Spanish but can't speak it fluently.

English is my first language, I'm in my fourth year of Spanish classes, and I've also worked with Japanese a lot, and Norwegian some. If Esperanto counts then I've got the grammatical structure down for that! Listened to some Pimsleur Mandarin Chinese tapes and I love it... I'll want to take Mandarin in college I think. Languages are my hobby.

English, spanish, french and quebecois.

Native
Portuguese

Fluent
English

Semi-fluent
Spanish

That's it :D

Native:

POLISH

Theoretically :) very good (professional certificates etc...) but I've lost fluency not having regular opportunities to improve my skills. In my current job mostly Polish is used.

ENGLISH, FRENCH, ITALIAN

Can read + can communicate with no major problems in typical circumstances during travel (hotel booking, restaurants, travel agencies etc)

SPANISH

Can read some simple texts (headlines etc.) and can communicate (sometimes with support of body language:))) in the simplest possible situations (i.e buying a ticket or a beer, asking about price etc.)

GERMAN, PORTUGUESE, RUSSIAN

I studied also LATIN in my secondary school but unfortunately I forgot most of it.

English but learning French and can speak and understand basic French and will be doing it for A-levels.

Just korean...
little english...

It is difficult to learn roman origin langueges(eng, german, french etc) for me

Mother tounge: Macedonian

Fluent: English, Serbian/Croatian

Beginer: Albanian, German

Bulgarian I understand 99% but I don't speak in it fluently

Slovenian I understand fairly good

I speak Spanish,English,German,French,a bit of Russian and some Japanese.

Native: English

Can read a little, speak a little: Spanish

Can read a little: French, Portuguese

Know some basic vocabulary: German, Japanese

Here I came...

My first language Spanish, but I speak English... too and im trying to learn, Italiand and Croatian..........:D

Native: Polish
Fluent: English
Beginner: German, Russian
Plans for future: Spanish (I dream about learning this language for pretty long time, but have no time for it and haven't even started:( )

Is there anybody who's not native Pole and speaks Polish, even at the basic level? Or learns(-ed) Polish? :)

Russian, English

native: Swedish.

Speaks rather well: English

Understand: Danish & Norwegian. can't speak though (wrong accent)

5-10 min conversation: French & German (studying them)

a few words: more or less all of the bigger languages

Native: Norwegian
Exellent: English
Intermediate: Danish, Swedish
Basic knowledge): French, German, Icelandic

Dutch, German, French, English en 'n bietjie Afrikaans, planning to study Spanish

Lithuanian, english a bit russian and a little bit spanish

Native: English
Quite Good: Spanish
Know a bit of: German, French

Know English, Hindi, Urdu, Tamil, Gujarati, Kannada. And know a bit of Telugu too.

English and some Tagalog.

But I also know a bit of Malay and Cantonese.

english-fluent
vietnamese-fluent
spanish-ok i guess (8th yr... u think i should be gud by now)
i want to study in college either cantonese or french... dont noe yet

i was born in the US, my mom was an english teacher in vietnam, but at home i only speak vietnamese. in first grade i was offered to take ESOL(basically a class for people speaking english as a second language)pretty ironic, and i was in the immersion program so half the school day i would learn math and science in spanish.

-Spanish & English
- J'ai pris 4 ans de français a l'ecole mais j'ai oublie beaucoup.
-i can read some portuguese and understand 80% when is written
-planning/wanting to learn some Romanian, Catalan, and German

English and Tagalog with limited Spanish, French and Malay.

All fluent in Capampangan, Tagalog and English. Very small Spanish.

native: cantonese
not bad: mandarin, english
thats about it

native: English.
semi-fluent: Spanish. I often have conversations with some friends from mexico and other hispanics at my local gym. A few of them don't know any English so if I can carry on a conversation with them it seems as if I do o.k.
Intermediate: German and Russian. I have friends from both Germany and Russia. I know quite a bit of vocab and verb conjugation/adjective placement, etc. I can read cyrillic.
Beginner: French, I know many frases, but reading and listening is still horrible.

I would love to learn every major language, but, of course, this would be extremely difficult, and one simply does not have the time to do so. I would like to learn and become fluent in German, and I really enjoy the sound of Russian so maybe that also. Maybe Mandarin later in life with its increasing importance.

English and some french

Fluent: English and Indonesian
Passive: Mandarin, Javanese, Balinese

English - Native tongue
French - Pretty good (I think, but I never speak it these days)
Spanish - Basic, tourist level, limited conversation
German - Some words and phrases, don't really speak it.
Slovenian - Trying to learn at the moment, very complicated case endings :dizzy:
Italian - A few words, numbers etc
Welsh - A few words, numbers etc
Finnish - Numbers up to 100

The only languages that I could comfortably have a conversation in are English and French.

English - Fluent
Greek - Fluent
Italian - A little bit
Arabic/Turkish/French - A word or two

English, French, Cantonese

Native: Portuguese
Fluent: English
Semi-fluent: Spanish (good writing, but not such a good speaking heheh)

I wish I could learn some German. I can pronounce words pretty well (cuz I've already learned some when I was 7, but I quit and forgot it all) and well, my city is a German city, my family has German decendence...

spanish-english... nahuatl-totonaca-maya-puerepecha-quechua-tarasco-chichimeca-nahuatl-tolteca...jajaja

English and Spanish fluently.... I want to learn something else though, probably french

Afrikaans is very close to Dutch. 95% Of the words are the same as in Dutch. Some words have changed a bit though. In general you could say that Afrikaans is easier than Dutch, especially the grammar. Biggest problem in understanding each other is Afrikaners pronounce their words different than Dutch.
In Namibia is seems most people speak Afrikaans, or at least, it is lingua franca, most people understand it.

Francais (mother tongue) & English

I've started learning German TODAY! Yeah! :cool:

And I think it's gonna be tough :(

I could talk German once at the Blumenau Rodiovaria! ;) How many % have actually German roots in your city (even though 3-4 generations ago)?

english
chinese
french
japanese

I could talk German once at the Blumenau Rodiovaria! ;) How many % have actually German roots in your city (even though 3-4 generations ago)?
I don't know exactly. In Pomerode (a town nearby) 80% of the population still speaks German!

Over here the German ethnicy must be present in about 70 or 80% of the population. I'm 75% German hehe. My dad was raised in German.

Anyway, a hell of a difficult language you speak eh. I'm having trouble with WO and WER, I mess them with Who and Where :D

Dutch, German, French, English en 'n bietjie Afrikaans, planning to study Spanish

ek praat 'n BEEKIE Afrikaans es wat jij het bedoel

Portuguese and English, a bit of german too.

right now gool'd...

English and cat
meow meow

if so many of you can read and speak Portuguese , why don't you visit the POrtuguese forum more often??? :yes:

We love foreign participation. There's a subforum there called "Além-Fronteiras"/"Around the World" dedicated to architecture and places outside of Portugal.

Come !!! :okay:

-Spanish & English
- J'ai pris 4 ans de français a l'ecole mais j'ai oublie beaucoup.
-i can read some portuguese and understand 80% when is written
-planning/wanting to learn some Romanian, Catalan, and German

catalan? it is always a pleasure to see foreign people interested in catalan...i can help you if you want, i speak catalan almost the whole day :cheers:

Dutch Persian English Frensh German. THE DUTCH EDUCATION SYSTEM ROCKS!!!

^^ I don't need the Dutch system to know 4 languages :D

Dutch (native), English, Russian, German, French, Ukrainian (little bit), and I can read Latin en classical Greek.
The Dutch system is not so bad.... ;)

Indonesian, English, Malay & I can read the Koran!

Polish (;)) and English fluently, German quite well ...

Dutch, English, some German (I can read about everything), some French, some Spanish.

english..ofcourse
punjabi
hindi
urdu
a lil bit of french and spanish

speak malay and english only. can READ arabic but dont understand anything. so, whats the easiest, industry language that i can learn quickly? maybe i will try to pick up something.

English
some Spanish
little Korean, Turkish

english
some korean
some french
learning russian

Korean
English

Albanian
English
Italian

Dutch (native), English, Russian, German, French, Ukrainian (little bit), and I can read Latin en classical Greek.
The Dutch system is not so bad.... ;)

I envy you...can you teach me ?

I can speak English, and two Philippine dialects, Tagalog and Cebuano.

Indonesian, English and Javanese (native)
a little German, learning Chinese and Spanish

English,(Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian),French. I can understand quite a few other Eastern European languages if it is in written form. Next on the list: German.

Spanish, Catalonian, English a little of français :)

Europeans know many languages! HEheh, well, they've got so many in their continent. In SA we only speak 2! :lol:

I speak: English, Greek, Russian, Italian.

I speak English, cuz it's my native language, German, and just a lil bit of Spanish
learning Russian...

Wow where do you people find time to learn so many languages?? And most importantly where do u practice the languages? Classroom learning isn't enough ... here in canada we learn french as a second language in school for many years (elementary school + 1st yr of high school min.) however very few people are actually able to speak it after all these years of learning!

i speak 2 languages btw: English & Polish.

Visayan (Cebuano), Tagalog, Chavacano (a little), English, and Spanish.

Trying to learn a little Portuguese. :)

Wow where do you people find time to learn so many languages?? And most importantly where do u practice the languages? Classroom learning isn't enough ... here in canada we learn french as a second language in school for many years (elementary school + 1st yr of high school min.) however very few people are actually able to speak it after all these years of learning!

i speak 2 languages btw: English & Polish.
Heh I practice English here in the forums and watching TV
Spanish also in the forums and on MSN
And when I speak some decent German I'll try to watch some Deutsche Welle (we got it here) and attend the German forums too :)

English
Bengali
Hindi
Assamese
Some French
Some Arabic
A bit of Korean

I speak spanish, english, and a little of french

Polish, English, German, Spanish, learning French & Russian

hebrew,russian,turkish,english i can understand balkan languages...

Polish :D
English
a bit of German and French

Spanish
French
English

..

Speak, write and read:

Danish
English
German

Can communicate in and read:

Swedish
Norwegian

Can buy a beer, read and tell where I'm from in:

German

Can buy a beer and not much else in:

Spanish
French

Can say hi in:
Chinese

Persian, Japanese, English and a bit of Arabic

Can say hi in:
Chinese

hi in chinese is hi :)

dutch
english
and a little bit:
French(no verlan (céfran))
Spanish
Bahasa Indonesia

hi in chinese is hi :)

do you know what muyangguniang meanse?:D

Native : Turkish
Very good: German,French
Good:English,Japanese
Poor:Russian

English
Cantonese
Little bit of German

Fluent in:

English
Haitian-Creole (has anyone heard of it?)


and very good in:

French

for me ....

English, Mandarin, Hokkian (Fujian-dialect), Indonesian, Malay.

not so fluent but can speak and understand with a slower speed are : Dutch, Cantonese (dialect used in HongKong), Javanese (Indonesian Dialect)

Turkish
Azeri
Uzbeki
Japanese
English

Fluent in:

English
Haitian-Creole (has anyone heard of it?)


and very good in:

French

yes it's a kind of broken french, very figurative

Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, English, French a smattering of Kannada, Gujrati

Thai
English
French
Japanese

for me ....

English, Mandarin, Hokkian (Fujian-dialect), Indonesian, Malay.

not so fluent but can speak and understand with a slower speed are : Dutch, Cantonese (dialect used in HongKong), Javanese (Indonesian Dialect)

Mandarin, Hokkian, and Cantonese are all dialects of one SINGLE language, Chinese, so sorry, you only speak English, Chinese, Indonesian, Malay, and Dutch. I don't go about naming American, British, Canadian, and Australian as languages, so why are you naming these regional dialects?

Me I speak English, French, Spanish, and if people speak slowly or write it down, I can understand Portuguese, Italian, Galician, Catalan, Mirandese, Aragonese, Valencian, Asturian, Occitan, Picard, Norman, Piedmontese, Napolitan, Venetian, Friulian, Sicilian, and Lombard.

Speak, write and read:
Spanish and Enlgish.

Does anybody can speak up to 7 languages?

English - fluent
Czech - fluent
Slovakian - fluent(very similiar to Czech)

Polish - Can mostly communicate and understand
German - Spoke it fluently when I was younger since I lived in Austria for a while but have forgoten most of it since(want to learn again in the future)

Does anybody can speak up to 7 languages?

A cousing of mine is fluent in Czech, German, Swiss, English, Slovakian, Russian, and is very good in Sweedish and learning Italian since she recently married one and moved to Italy :eek2: .

English - fluent
Czech - fluent
Slovakian - fluent(very similiar to Czech)

Polish - Can mostly communicate and understand
German - Spoke it fluently when I was younger since I lived in Austria for a while but have forgoten most of it since(want to learn again in the future)



A cousing of mine is fluent in Czech, German, Swiss, English, Slovakian, Russian, and is very good in Sweedish and learning Italian since she recently married one and moved to Italy :eek2: .
OMG!!!! your cousin is truly genius. :eek2:

Swedish, English, Danish, Norweigan.

Can speak some French, German, a little Spanish, and hopefully Mandarin soon.

English - native
French - used to be fluent but not used it for a long while
Spanish - Conversational level but not fluent

...and a smattering of Danish from living there for a year.

Used to think that was quite good, but there are some muy impressivo lists up thread.

Europeans know many languages! HEheh, well, they've got so many in their continent. In SA we only speak 2! :lol:

I feel ashamed, I only speak English, but I do speak some Chav- “innit bruv” :D

for me

greek - fluent
german - fluent
english - can speak and understand but not so fluent

I can speak German (my mother tongue) and English fluently.
Furthermore, I can speak and read some French, but it's difficult for me to understand spoken French.
I can understand and do some conversation on a very simple level in Danish, Norwegian and Dutch.
And I've learned Latin in School, so I can translate some Latin sentences...

I would really like to learn an eastern European language (Polish, Russian, ...) and maybe a language like Persian anytime in my life. Somehow, those languages fascinate me.

English
German( can get by in it but not fluent)
Gujarati

A bit of Hindi as well picked up from some of these Bollywood Blockbusters :)

English, Chinese, Hokkien, Malay, Indonesian.
Not very fluent: Cantonese

English, German, French and a bit Italian. :)

Mandarin, Hokkian, and Cantonese are all dialects of one SINGLE language, Chinese, so sorry, you only speak English, Chinese, Indonesian, Malay, and Dutch. I don't go about naming American, British, Canadian, and Australian as languages, so why are you naming these regional dialects?

Me I speak English, French, Spanish, and if people speak slowly or write it down, I can understand Portuguese, Italian, Galician, Catalan, Mirandese, Aragonese, Valencian, Asturian, Occitan, Picard, Norman, Piedmontese, Napolitan, Venetian, Friulian, Sicilian, and Lombard.

cantonese and hokkian is no longer considered as a dialect by itself coz it is a language in hongkong and taiwan, respectively. it has its own writing character which is not the same as mandarin. Just like european country where every country has their own language, asian countries also have.

You're gonna classified Malay and Indonesian are the same aren't you? well, in fact Tagalog and Indonesian is also similar (just change some vocal). Dutch and German is different but still about the same.

These are the languages I studied

Fluent English (I lived 7.5 years between the US and England and studied it for 13yrs)
Fluent German (I live in Germany and studied it for 3 yrs!)
Fluent Spanish (I lived in Spain and studied it for 1 yr! ;)
Fluent Italian (native)
Intermediate French (school French - frequent travels in France)
Basic Japanese (1 yr Japanese classes in London 3 weeks practice in Japan ;))
Catalan understood but not spoken
Portuguese understood - a semester class (but mostly the one from Brasil)

For me:
Motherlanguage: Dutch
Fluently: English
Reasonable: French and German
I speak a little bit Italian and Spanish and a few words Hebrew and Arabic.

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^About the same here.

For me:
Fluently: Dutch and English
Reasonable: French, German and Spanish
A little bit of Italian and Portugese.

Fluent : Hindi , English

Good : Marathi , Gujarati

Basic : French

English and French

Basic: Spanish

Fluent in
URDU(native)
ENGLISH
HAUSA(a west african language)

Good
PUNJABI
FRENCH

Can read and get the basic meaning but not maintain a conversation
Arabic
Spanish
:)


And yeah can read, write, speak very fluently

C,C#,VC,Visual Basic,Java,Html,Php,ASP.NET,PROLOG,Pascal and lots of others.
:nuts: :lol: :cheers:
:runaway:

English and Italian(still learning, though). I'm thinking of learning Spanish, but I don't really like it, so..:P

yes it's a kind of broken french, very figurative

not really broken french...but it takes a lot of vocabulary from French...grammar is totally different.

French and Kreyol are mutually unintelligble btw!

The languages i speak
Fluent: English,Cantonese,Hakka(not common anymore)
Good:Latin,Spanish
Learning: Japanese, Manderin, Korean

I'm fluent in Somali and English

I also know some Arabic, and I took French in high school (it's fading away though...)

Swedish, Finnish, English, German. And I can cath up some french from TV programs. And I can read some russian..

Too many anyway... Two languages would be enough if I could choose.

I speak Spanish (mother tongue), French (seconde language), English (don't like but have no choice), Portuguese (fluent) and I'm learning Russian (what a nice language!).
In the future, I would like to learn Arabic and Mandarin.

Chinese & English

Mother tongue is English, second is French, third Lithuanian + can converse at a basic level in a few other European languages. Can also read Latin and Ancient Greek, though of course I can't speak them. In three years time I hope to be more or less fluent in French, Lithuanian, Russian and Korean.

And yeah can read, write, speak very fluently

C,C#,VC,Visual Basic,Java,Html,Php,ASP.NET,PROLOG,Pascal and lots of others.
:nuts: :lol: :cheers:
:runaway:


:rofl::rofl:

I speak German ok, but still needs the help of google sometimes.
I speak French fluent.
I speak little Urdu
I speak Thai medium
I speak Cantonese ok

Portuguese
Spanish
English
German

Fluent:English
OKAY (but gets made fun of lol) Gujarati
SCHOOL OKAY- SPANISH

I can speak:
Spanish (my mother tongue) :D
English
bit of French.

That´s all

Fluent: Spanish, English
OK: French, Catalan
Can basically understand: Portuguese, Galician, Italian
Can get a few words and phrases here and there: Japanese, German

I fluently speak Castillian and English. I wish to learn French and Portuguese.

English
French
Udru
Hindi
Arabic
Punjabi :)
and a made up language thats been passed down my family (used when we talk about personal stuff in public)

wish i could speak cantonese

English
French
Arabic (Lebanese and Egyptian dialect)
Spanish
Italian

I speak 3 Philippine Languages
Filipino (Tagalog)
Kapampangan
Bikolano
and
English
Spanish
and a little of...
Mandarin
Italian

I used to know a little
French
Japanese (from an ex)
German (from an ex)

I read and write
the Latin ALphabet
Baybayin (Ancient Tagalog writing system)
the Greek Alphabet
I also know how to write my name in
Japanese
Chinese

Russian, English, a fair bit of both Bulgarian and Ukrainian.... I need to pick up a Romance language next!

Polish (mothertongue)
English
German
Japanese
Russian
a bit of French and Italian
and I'm planning to learn Korean, Mandarin and Cantonese.

English
Turkish
German

...Learning Latin...

And yeah can read, write, speak very fluently

C,C#,VC,Visual Basic,Java,Html,Php,ASP.NET,PROLOG,Pascal and lots of others.
:nuts: :lol: :cheers:
:runaway:


:rofl::rofl:

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001001001100001001001000100011000101001010101000100010011!

and you can believe that is true!

French : native
English : not so good but comprehensible
Deutsh : Beginner, average in the past but beginner today, with practice i can find my ancient level :)

Fluent in:
Ukrainian, English, Russian

Understand, can read simple text like comments, remarks and news:
Belarusian( understand 85% ), Polish ( understand 50-60% ), and for Bulgarian, Slovakian, Czech, Serbian ranges from 30% to 50% in terms of understanding.

Some basic:
German ( will continue learning it next semester )

Plan to learn: as many as I can :laugh: but most preferably I want to master all slavic languages

Portuguese, English and Spanish.

french first.
english,german,greek.

Korean, English, learning Japanese

Korean
English
Spanish

Native: Serbian/Croatian
Fluent: English
Good: Russian
Beginer: Italian, Spanish

i speak Arabic and English

but i am going to learn the following....

Spanish
French
Italian
German
Portuguese
Russian
Armenian
Bengali
Bosnian
Chinese
Danish
Dutch
Filipino
Greek
Hebrew
Hindi
Hungarian
Irish
Japanese
Korean
Malay
Persian
Russian
Thai


but i wont learn:

Zulu and Swahili



looooooooooooooooooooool i wish

I know:

Greek
English
French

portuguese, english and spanish

i can speak
urdu (national language of pakistan)
english
arabic